28.1. The System and Server Status Module

This module allows you to monitor the status of various servers and daemons running on your system, so you can easily see which ones are running properly and which are down. It can also be configured to check the status of servers on a regular schedule, and to email you or run a command if something goes down. This can be useful if your system runs critical servers that other people depend upon, such as web or DNS servers.

The module can also monitor servers running on other hosts. This can be done in two ways—by making a TCP or HTTP connection to the port on which the server runs or by communicating with the Webmin server on the remote host and asking it to check the status of the server. The latter ...

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